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This Week In Security: Ubiquiti Fixes, And FreeBSD Joins The Club You Don’t Want To Join

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By Mike Kershaw | May 29, 2026

Ubiquiti released a new security bulletin detailing fixes for six security issues, including one rated 9.1 (critical) and one scoring a perfect 10.0 on the CVE risk scale. The vulnerabilities …read more
When Is An Apple Laptop Not A Macbook? When It’s An Apple II

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By Tyler August | May 29, 2026

Do you remember, some years ago, when that brand-new 8086-based laptop hit the shelves? Great for PC lovers, but not so fun for those on the fruitier side of the …read more
Medication Reminder Uses Only One Button

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By Bryan Cockfield | May 29, 2026

As anyone who takes medicines regularly will attest to, the days have a tendency to blur together, making it hard to remember if you did something like take that day’s …read more
An Atic Atac Minimap For The ZX Spectrum

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By Jenny List | May 28, 2026

The use of modern microcontrollers as add-on peripherals for 1980s home computers has delivered significant benefits and capabilities unimaginable in the days when those machines were new. A great example …read more
How To Let Everyone Keep A Secret

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By Al Williams | May 28, 2026

Someone calls you at work and says, “Don’t tell anyone, but…” If you are like most people, there are one or two people you will pass it along to with …read more
Recycling Two XBox One Consoles Into A 10 GB USB Flash Drive

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By Maya Posch | May 28, 2026

Amidst the ongoing RAM & storage apocalypses, Mad Max-esque scenes are unsurprisingly developing, with the eMMC recycling project by [Chase Fournier] from a pair of XBox One S (‘XBone’) mainboards …read more
Camping On Unconventional Watercraft

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By Bryan Cockfield | May 28, 2026

The fjords of Norway are world famous for their beauty, but even though the word itself is Norwegian, there are fjords all over the world in areas that used to …read more

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